Smartware Group
07/18/2016
It's true that Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is typically designed for maintenance operations. With the advancement of cloud-based CMMS/EAM, however, well-designed platforms have become an essential system for other departments within, and outside of, the organization. A Spend Matters interview with Michael Croasdale, senior project manager at Source One Management Services, relays that MRO service providers should be lock-step in line with client companies, to the degree that they're sharing "specific data to benchmark pricing, [ensuring] service levels exceed industry standard and [helping] to institute industry best practices." One way to maintain this alignment, of course, is through supplier access to the client's CMMS. Internally, ...

TechCrunch
The emerging Darwinian approach to analytics and augmented intelligence
TechCrunch
Another area of rapid algorithmic evolution is predictive maintenance. Now that the industrial Internet of Things provides streaming sensor readings from most equipment, it's critical to immediately analyze those readings. That analysis predicts when a ...

Tire Review
The Impact of the Connected Vehicle
Tire Review
Predictive maintenance takes this one step further by predicting future failures and recommending preventative action through the use of on-board fault detection systems. But collecting and storing FDI data until it's transmitted through the telematics ...

Harald Großmann, service centre manager for Sulzer's Neuss Service centre in Germany looks at the maintenance challenges facing petrochemical refineries and how to improve asset performance and reliability.

A lot has been said and written about predictive analytics. Most of the attention focuses on applying forecasting techniques to the domains of marketing and security. More recently, however, the rise of machine generated data (e.g., M2M, Industrial Internet of Things, Industries 4.0, etc.) has opened a new playground for data scientists. Read more here

Euromaintenance 2016 will take place in Athens at the end of May. It is the ideal moment to reflect on maintenance in a European context. Euromaintenance is known as the summit for all involved in maintenance across Europe, it’s the place to be. The conference, with the support of the EFNMS, is the only commercially independent conference covering the topics we deal with in the maintenance world.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sees his company's role in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as the platform from which companies will build their own software solutions. Otis Elevator Company president Philippe Delpech is in the business of moving platforms to achieve business success. In announcing his company's partnership with Microsoft at a press conference April 24 at Hannover Messe, Delpech said his company will use that digital platform to improve its operation and better use its workers. "Otis invested the elevator; without it, New York and Chicago might never existed. There would be no building above three stories," said Delpech. "One of the reasons we have led the industry for 163 years is that we have been innovative as a company. We also have been a service innovation. We h...

Anyone who doesn't entirely trust a crystal ball when it comes to future maintenance outlay for their production facilities should definitely head to HANNOVER MESSE 2016. Here, they can take a look at the IoT technology stack Thinglyfied from SSV Software Systems, which is being showcased for the first time with an added predictive maintenance feature.

European industry is ageing and putting pressure on maintenance performance. The same goes with state-owned bridges, railways and energy networks. What does this mean for the modern-day maintenance manager? The need for an extended Value Driven Maintenance (VDM) model, which focuses on the entire and extended asset lifecycle.

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that it has developed a technology that generates synthesized 3D panoramic screens to fully understand conditions throughout a worksite for on-site maintenance, inspection and other work. Using time series images taken from a worker-side camera, when combined with augmented reality (AR) technology, remotely supporting operators can use that image to provide precise, omnidirectional instructions to field workers. In recent years, a shortage of skilled workers in Japan has put a spotlight on technology that enables skilled workers to provide remote work support to less-experienced field workers.

Siemens is launching a gateway based on the Intel Quark chip family onto the market which links cloud, in-company IT and production. The Simatic IOT2000 is designed for industrial IT solutions that acquire, process and transfer data directly in the production environment. For example, it can be used to connect the production to a cloud-based analysis of machine and production data. This gateway can also be retrofitted in existing plants, where it then harmonizes communication between different data sources, analyzes the data, and passes it on for evaluation in, for example, a cloud. The cloud could be MindSphere, the Siemens Cloud for Industry, or any other cloud preferred by the user. The Simatic IOT2000 complements the MindConnect Nano cloud gateway from Siemens. This is already on the m...

In today's evolving manufacturing environment, machines and components are digitally integrated and able to "talk" to one another. This enables factory operators to continuously capture data on machine states, combine it with information from other systems (such as ERP or CRM software), analyze it and predict the optimal point in time at which to initiate maintenance. The integration of predictive maintenance (PdM) and the data generated through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is expected to pinpoint impending outages before they occur, speed up overhaul processes and avoid production outages. A recent study by the World Economic Forum and the consulting firm Accenture lends substance to the high hopes currently riding on PdM. According to the study, PdM can reduce the cost of pl...

As we shift to a service-based economy, many businesses are beefing up their product support departments in order to stay competitive. How the newest trends and technology will impact the field service industry in 2016. In 2015, field-based businesses saw the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the boom of Big Data. The growth of new business practices and technologies over the past year have made it easier for service organizations to streamline the scheduling and service process and deliver greater equipment uptime. Now, as we enter 2016, we'll see a continuation of those trends as businesses scramble to take advantage of the best mobile and back office software, become early adopters of IoT, and make sense of the recent access to valuable data. As we enter an era more reliant ...

Condition Monitoring (CM) has been used for many years as an integral part of a Predictive Maintenance (PM) strategy. The measurement of vibration, for example, is one of the most widely used CM techniques for detecting and diagnosing faults in the roller bearings used in many types of plant, bearings, which, if they fail unexpectedly, can result in high repair and replacement costs. - Jan 2016

Published: 09 February, 2016
Maintenance budget constraints are having a significant impact on machinery uptime, according to one of the UK’s leading drives and controls manufacturers.
The warning, from Bosch Rexroth, has been issued to manufacturers who restrict the resouce available to maintenance departments, despite the complexity of equipment continuing to advance.
A recent survey conducted by the drives and controls specialist, in conjunction with The Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET), revealed that the maintenance budgets of more than 50% of manufacturers had stagnated or reduced over the past five years.
This is despite the fact that more than two thirds of manufacturers stated that the breadth of equipment they maintain has increased, as well as three qua...

More than 240 exhibitors have booked their place so far at Underhåll, Northern Europe’s biggest trade fair in the field of operations and maintenance, at the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre in Gothenburg. Underhåll 2016 will take place from 8−11 March.

The International Event will focus on Sustainable Operations and Maintenance, Maintenance within Asset Management, Asset Reliability, and current Maintenance Best Practices, including for: Energy: Power Generation Plants; Nuclear Plants ...

Asset Management is an integrated approach, which aims to include a holistic, systematic, systemic, risk-based and optimized analysis of the physical assets. But what does it actually means for organizations?

AuthorsBernard Schmidt
School of Engineering ScienceUniversity of Skövde
Lihui Wang
Department of Production EngineeringKTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Engineering ScienceUniversity of Skövde
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
First Online:
05 June 2016
Received:
25 November 2015
Accepted:
26 May 2016
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-016-8983-8Cite this article as:
Schmidt, B. & Wang, L. Int J Adv Manuf Technol (2016). doi:10.1007/s00170-016-8983-8
AbstractMaintenance of assembly and manufacturing equipment is crucial to ensure productivity, product quality, on-time delivery, and a safe working environment. Predictive maintenance is an approach that utilises the condition monitoring data to predict the future machine conditions and makes decisions upon this prediction. The main aim of the present...

An analytical multiobjective maintenance planning model that maximizes reliability while minimizing cost and human error is proposed. In order to incorporate human error, the model minimizes the maximum human error over the planning horizon. Human Error Assessment and Reduction Technique (HEART) is used to quantify the human error. Maintenance activities include adjustment and replacement activities, in which each of them consumes a certain amount of human resource, spare parts, and budget and brings about a specified level of reliability and human error. Economic dependence is also considered, in which grouping maintenance activities reduces total cost. However, this may increase human error probability due to operator fatigue or time pressure. The main purpose is to investigate the rel...

Even though big data may seem like a buzzword that has permeated almost every industry on the planet, this near limitless source of information can drive unprecedented company growth and efficiency. Unfortunately, a large part of this potentially useful ...

Financial Times
big data helps German trains run on time
Financial Times
Now, Siemens believes it can change all that, by combining two industrial disciplines: “big data” analysis and predictive maintenance. By fitting hundreds of sensors to its locomotives, which feed back data on the condition of components, it can ensure ...

Smart elevator efforts by Huawei, Schindler, and ThyssenKrupp are discussed, with uses in predictive maintenance and efficient dispatch. According to Transparency Market Research, the smart elevator market is expected to grow from $9.54 billion in 2015 to ...

Thu, 09/01/2016 - 3:56pm Comments by Sundeep Sanghavi Before the Internet of Things emerged, automobile data was highly limited and hard to gather. For manufacturers, informed decisions were difficult to make — and it was nearly impossible to act ...

In the first part of our series, we examined how engineering and quality personnel interface with CMMS to correct an issue with a volumetric feeder before a breakdown occurs leveraging predictive maintenance. Now Part II delves into how other areas of an organization, like Sales and Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S), can also gain from routine CMMS access along with Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Maintenance and Human Resources with different CMMS user type roles. The scenario Say a facility tour was hosted the other week by your sales team. A sales manager noticed a potential “nip point,” and wanted to react quickly to this safety hazard. He submits a maintenance request into your CMMS, which becomes automatically routed to your maintenance scheduler to rev...

It is often observed an emergency unplanned plant shutdown due to failure of a machine may not only cause production loss but may also affect plant safety. A case study shows that simple on-line vibration measurement can predict the presence of a fault at early stage so that maintenance activity can be planned before failure. - Jul 2016

The Danfoss Group is a Danish global producer of products and services used within infrastructure, food, energy and climate. Their main focus is in areas such as cooling food, air conditioning, heating buildings, controlling electric motors, compressors, drives and powering mobile machinery.

The next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices will deliver expertise and adaptive command and control, beyond just providing information for higher level processing. Knowledge-enhanced electronic logic (KEEL) technology will play a role in accelerating the delivery of these advanced capabilities into small, low-cost devices. The big data concept is that all of the connected devices will be producing information that is consumed by some higher-level system. Potentially, there is another view. Given that some type of controller will control these devices, many of these devices can take on new responsibilities. Gartner Inc. predicts that there will be 6.4 billion connected objects in use by 2016 and 21 billion by 2020. Rather than just producing data, these devices can perhaps take ...

Upgrades can be tricky, especially in automation systems. They come in many varieties, each with unique challenges. Sorting through a plethora of technical and operational issues while keeping budgets and schedules under control is a tough course to navigate, but great outcomes are more than possible. When pursuing an upgrade, consider these guidelines. Form and function Not all upgrades are created equal. Some can be done with simple swaps with little to no impact on operations. Others fundamentally alter the composition and behavior of the system, requiring extensive installation, training, and monitoring to complete. Usually, upgrades entail some change to the physical or logical structure of the system. New application functionality is often thrown in the mix. First, consider the diffe...

Control Engineering Asia
On the Path to Predictive Maintenance
Control Engineering Asia
Predictive maintenance (PdM) was one of the first core issues to be tackled by the manufacturing world as a challenge of Industry 4.0. The Industry 4.0 software solutions market study by Bosch Software Innovations identified PdM as a specific ...

The power generation sector, like many others, is under constant pressure to minimise downtime and maximise productivity. This means pump equipment is expected to run for longer periods with reduced maintenance intervals. When repairs are needed, they have to be completed within tight deadlines to comply with ever shorter and shorter maintenance windows. Darrell Howard, repair engineering manager at Sulzer’s Houston facility, explains some of the key points that affect a successful repair project.

Predictive Maintenance is one of the hottest topics concerning Industry 4.0. It promises enormous savings to machine operators, and opens up the whole sector to a flood of digital transformations, with digital business models on its new horizons. Schaeffler AG shows where this journey is leading.

In the manufacturing sector especially, any business can benefit from using a well-designed Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for overseeing every aspect of the maintenance process. A modern CMMS can house all of your company's maintenance processes in one "system of record," curating all the data you need in one portal that's convenient and easy to use. The benefits can be numerous. One recent example is Multifilm Packaging, a manufacturer of flexible packaging solutions for the food and beverage industries and headquartered in Elgin, Illinois. By relying on Bigfoot CMMS to help with maintenance continuous improvement, Multifilm Packaging was able to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. The background on Multifilm Packaging Multifilm Packaging has carved out ...

Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation, Dept of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, 26500, Rio Patras, Greece
Received 16 December 2014, Revised 4 September 2015, Accepted 15 December 2015, Available online 19 February 2016
Maintenance and its cost continue, over the years, to draw the attention of production management since the unplanned failures decrease the reliability of the system and also the return of investments. Advanced maintenance techniques that capture and process shop-floor information can reduce costs and increase the sustainability of an enterprise. This paper presents a condition-based preventive maintenance approach integrated into a machine monitoring framework. The latter acquires data from shop-floor machine tools and ana...

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Increasing PM level will decrease quality control costs.
Abstract
This paper integrates production, maintenance, and quality for an imperfect process in a multi-period multi-product capacitated lot-sizing context. The production system is modeled as an imperfect machine, whose the status is considered to be either in-control or out-of-control. When the machine is out of control, it produces a fraction of nonconforming items. During each period, this machine is inspected and imperfect preventive maintenance activities are simultaneously performed to reduce its age, ...

Every device, no matter how connected, has the potential to break. As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to permeate every sector of manufacturing, from transportation and logistics to automotive and utilities, businesses are turning to predictive ...

At the International SAP Conference on Asset Management, customers will show how they are achieving operational excellence, enhancing quality and compliance, and ultimately maximizing return on assets. - Sep 2016

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Low-Voltage Motors Now Integrated in the IoT
At HANNOVER MESSE 2016, ABB was using Smart Sensors to present a Condition Monitoring solution that makes the predictive maintenance of low-voltage motors a truly economic proposal, providing plant operators with far more control, together with new business models for service providers.

by Claire Gowson Asset Management Consultant at eAsset Management So, when was the last time you made a decision based on gut feel? That is, a choice based on what your intuition told you, rather than weighing up more obviously tangible or robust evidence. Was it choosing breakfast (yes – that is the most literal example of gut feel I could think of!)? Deciding whether you wanted a second date? Or was it hiring a new employee? There are some decisions in life where gut feel plays an...

In another industry first, DJI has partnered with Swiss aerial technology company Flyability to integrate the Lightbridge 2, an ultra-reliable image transmission system, with the collision-tolerant Elios aircraft. Elios is the first UAV designed for inspection and exploration of inaccessible or confined spaces. With a robust enclosure giving the system the ability to withstand impact, the Elios leverages Lightbridge 2 technology to reliably navigate complex structures and metallic...

aBIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH at the University of Bremen, Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, GermanybLogDynamics Lab at the University of Bremen, Hochschulring 20, 28359 Bremen, GermanycPSPS – Planning and Control of Production and Logistics Systems, Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany
Received 4 December 2014, Revised 28 August 2015, Accepted 5 January 2016, Available online 19 February 2016
Most fault detection systems (FDS) have proved their efficiency in the detection of anomalies and disruptions in technical systems. However, the detection of these anomalies and disruptions is time consuming and not applicable to real-time applications. Moreover many technical systems like e.g. machines and plants require a real-time decision suppo...

Experts say that the digital universe will double in size every 2 years and that by 2020 will reach 44 zettabytes, or 44 trillion gigabytes, containing nearly as many digital bits as there are stars in the universe (Source: IDC). With advanced analytics, this Big Data is being transformed into smart data, revolutionizing business models across all industries, including energy. As this digital revolution magnifies, Siemens is driving pioneering new digital services and expanding its current service solutions for its global customers. The Siemens Power Generation Services Division has been advancing the development of digital trends, building upon its more than 20 years of experience collecting and analyzing data as part of its power diagnostics services. The company is deploying proje...

Renowned international invited guests, along with 104 distinguished speakers from 28 different countries, will be visiting Athens for the EuroMaintenance 2016 Conference, which will take place between 30 May and 1 June 2016.

There's a great deal of pressure to use modern technology for coordinating logistics and overcoming business challenges— particularly in manufacturing, where processes can be complex and efficiency is key. Surprisingly, though, there's been a notable decline in recent months in companies relying on outside software providers to help them manage operations. The market for outsourcing just isn't what it used to be. Largely, this is the case because companies are moving away from client server-based software and embracing cloud platforms instead. This is unsurprising—it's a natural stage in the evolution of business technology. Cloud-based systems, such as flexibly-designed computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), reduce the need for customizations and implem...

The right maintenance strategy is performing the right task at the right time. Asset performance management (APM) is a process that ensures that assets are safe, reliable, and efficient over their operating life.

Engineering asset management encompasses all types of engineered assets from infrastructure and equipment to software systems across all sectors of industry and the public sector. Successful asset management requires multidisciplinary approaches. The WCEAM 2015 conference slogan reminds us of the fact that physical assets are not there for their own sake, but to create value for their owners, users and other stakeholders.

The biennial Plant and Asset Management Exhibition, co-located alongside; Drives & Controls, European Offshore Energy, Air-Tech and Fluid Power & Systems Exhibitions – is once again set to return to Birmingham’s NEC (Halls 3/3A) from 12-14th April 2016, alongside MACH 2016 and National Electronics Week 2016. Collectively the exhibitions will be the largest manufacturing and engineering events of 2016, and will create an unmissable event.

Predictive maintenance brings efficiency to Trenitalia
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“The project was built according to the requirements expressed by the operation management and represents a paradigm shift. There is no more maintenance by mileage or by time. The goal is to keep costs to a minimum by applying predictive maintenance ...

With a global reliance on energy and a sustained period of low oil prices, BPD Zenith’s cloud-based asset management solution comes at a critical time for the oil and gas industry. MaxiCloud, based on IBM Maximo Asset Management, is a key opportunity for improving operational efficiency and cutting cost. - Feb 2016

Rolling bearings are critical components used extensively in many types of plant and equipment, and if they fail unexpectedly can result in catastrophic failure with associated high repair and replacement costs. Consequently, vibration based condition monitoring has been used for many years to detect and diagnose machine faults and form the basis of a predictive maintenance strategy. - Jan 2016

The more advanced, data-driven approach to data center maintenance is predictive. This strategy relies on a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to monitor machine components before they break down ...

The most important Bearing Industry event of 2016 will take place on 22-23 March 2016 in Dortmund, during a 2 days long Conference, Workshops and EXPO. BRCE2016 is the meeting place where both the global bearing players meet the established global equipment Reliability strategies and brings them both together as one message – Bearing Reliability!

Since its inception 44 years ago, the Internet grown drastically and now has even become a tool for maintenance teams. Welcome to predictive maintenance in the cloud. Taking advantage of continuously developing wireless sensing ...